Word: brassed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hawk-eyed, didactic General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery is the darling of the British public, the despair of the brass-hatted British War Office. Many a tender-skinned staff officer has quoted an apocryphal toast, usually attributed to Winston Churchill: "To General Montgomery! Indomitable in defeat, indefatigable in attack, insufferable in victory!" When Monty turned up in London last week, primed to take command of British ground troops in the invasion of Western Europe, he had again endeared himself to his men if not to the War Office. He had left with them a forthright farewell summary of the Eighth...
...sand pit, with hollows scooped in the ground for molds. There were no furnaces, patterns or flasks. So he made his own. With a furnace of firebrick taken from the town dump, his three enlisted men and several Indians turn out 500 different items from junkyard aluminum and used brass cartridge cases...
...Brass. The top staffs settled down in villas and houses surrounding the hotel. There were 34 villas altogether, divided into seven "defensive zones." Around them bristled anti-aircraft guns, searchlights, pillboxes, gun emplacements, fire-watcher towers...
...outside was designed in the style of the "Bluebeard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched on the latter almost without interruption since the beginning, though it has frequently been requested to leave...
...Like Eli Whitney, Paul Revere is famed for the wrong thing: he never completed his gallant ride, but he learned how to make and roll copper and brass (British monopolists thought they had that essential art sewed up) and he pioneered the theory that high wages mean high production and profits. The $2 a day he paid his workmen was infinitely more of a shock than Henry Ford...